WARNING: NEVER OBSERVE THE SUN WITH THE NAKED EYE OR THROUGH A TELESCOPE, CAMERA OR OTHER OPTICAL DEVICE UNLESS YOU HAVE A PROPER SOLAR FILTER AND KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

Huge solar prominence on the sun today. Shot through some high altitude wispy clouds so it is not as detailed as I would like. Also wanted to put a barlow magnified lens on to zoom into the prominence but before I got a chance the clouds became much thicker.I have included a scaled Earth to give you an idea just how big that prominence was.

Thank you very much No all the photos are this size. What I mean by 60 images in the description is that they are all virtually identical taken one after the other. When you stack these images together in an astronomy image editing program you are able to pull more detail of of the images as it improves the signal to noise ratio.

Thanks again mate If I remember right I think they were talking about the large sunspot group that was pointing straight at us. The active regions around sunspots are generally where most of the ejections/eruptions come from, so there was a chance that we could get an eruption coming stright at us. The auroras would have been awesome if that had happened.

Thanks 'Tis a big one. If it was pointing straight at us instead of off to the side and there was a eruption or coronal mass ejection then we would get increased aurora activity. A really big ejection straight at us could knock out satellites and power supplies. Thankfully they are really rare and we have a magnetic field that deflects most of it.

Probably not. As I understand it, these prominences are usually fairly benign. If the surface suddenly erupts and ejects material away from the sun and if it's pointing at the earth at the time, then we can expect increased aurora activity.

thanks. I have big hopes that I will catch it sometime. I am pretty far south, but there is an astronomy field near me which brags the ability to view such things when they are highly active. so i'm constantly trying to figure out when that is haha